2018-2019学年光明中学高一下英语期中

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary （30 分）Section A （10分）Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.21. _______ caused the accident has not been found out yet.A. WhatB. WhichC. The thingD. That22. She found her calculator _______ she lost it.A. whereB. whenC. in whichD. that23. I have no doubt _______ he’ll c ome to our help if we call him.A. whetherB. ifC. thatD. when24. Boys, please don’t talk about such things _______ you don’t understand at all.A. thatB. asC. whichD. what25. He was about to tell me the secret _______ someone patted me on the shoulder.A. thatB. whichC. whenD. until26. He made another wonderful discovery, _______ of great importance to science.A. which I think isB. which I think it isC. which I think itD. I think is27. A farmer claimed _______ a rare South China tiger in the wild with a digital camera last year, but it turned out to be a dishonest trick.A. to photographB. photographingC. to have photographedD. having photographed28. My father thinks I am not capable _______ my own living, but I mean _______ him that he is wrong.A. to earn, to showB. of earning, showingC. of earning, to showD. in earning, to show29. Mr. Smith arrived at the office every morning at precisely ten o’clock, _______ his bat on a peg near the door and went his way to his desk.A. hangingB. hangedC. hungD. and hanged30. By the time we _______, a waiter had come over to our table with a smile.A. seatedB. sittingC. sat ourselvesD. were seatedSection B （10 分）Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Happiness Is an AttitudeThe 92-year-old confident and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably combed and makeup perfectly applied, moved to a____31___(nurse) home today.Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, ___32___ (make) the move necessary.After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she ___33___ (smile) sweetly when told her room was ready. As she got into the elevator ___34___ her wheelchair, I provided a description of her tiny room.“I love it,” she started with the enthusiasm of ___35___ eight-year-old child having just been presented with a new dog.“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room….just wait.”“That has ___36___ to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. ___37___ I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged…it’s ___38___ I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in ben ___39___ (recount) the difficulty I have with the parts of my body ___40___ no longer work or get our of bed and be thankful for the ones working. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away… just for this time in my life.”Section C （10 分）Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a___41___ voice in the year before the Civil War.A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) ___42___Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a___43___ site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year ___44___. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a whit father he never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black ___45___ to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （总领事）to Haiti.As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he ____46___ taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system ___47___ up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the ___48___, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass ___49___ the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美国宪法修正案）, which ___50___ African-Americans the right to vote.Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension （30 分）Section A （15分）Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.President Obama’s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to stress America’s commitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: ‘We are true to our belief that a little girl borninto (51) _______ knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American’.The gap between ideal and reality could hardly be (52) _______ . Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has (53) _______ the myth that America is a land of opportunity. A way of looking at equality of opportunity is to as to what extent the life chances of a child are (54) _______ the education and income of his parents. Is it just as likely that a child of poor or poorly educated parents gets a good education and rises to the middle class as someone born to middle-class parents with college degrees? Even in a more democratic society. the answer would be no.How do we explain this? Some of it has to do with discrimination （歧视）. Latinos and African-Americans still get paid less than whites, and women still get paid less than men, (55) _______ they recently surpassed （超越）men in the number of advanced degrees they obtain. Discrimination, however, is only a small part of the (56) _______. Probably the most important reason for (57) _______ of equality of opportunity is education. After World WarⅡ, we made a major effort to (58) _______ higher education to Americans across the country. But then we changed, in several ways. While racial segregation（种族隔离）decreased, economic segregation increased. After 1980, the poor grew poorer, the middle stagnated（停滞不前）, and the top did better and better. A result was a widening gap in educational performance – the (59) _______ gap between rich and poor kids born in 2001 was 30 to 40 percent larger than it was for those born 25 years earlier, a Stanford sociologist found. Of course, there are other forces (60) _______ . Children in rich families get more exposure to reading. Their families can afford enriching experiences like music lessons and summer camp. They get better nutrition and health care, which enhance their learning, directly and indirectly.Now Americans are coming to realize that without extensive policy changes, their long cherished belief is only a myth. It is unreasonable that a rich country like the United States has made(61) _______ to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle. There are many(62) _______ ways of providing chances for more to receive higher education, from Australia’s income-contingent loan program to the near-free system of universities in Europe. A more educated population produces greater innovation, and a booming economy. Those benefits are why we’ve long been (63) _______ to free public education through 12th grade. But while a 12th-grade educationmight have been enough a century ago, it isn’t today. Yet we haven’t (64) _______ our system to contemporary realities.The steps I’ve outlined are not just affordable but necessary. Even more important, though, is that we cannot afford to let our country drift farther from (65) _______ that the vast majority of Americans share. We will never fully succeed in achieving Mr. Obama’s vision of a poor girl’s having exactly the same opportunities as a wealthy girl. But we could do much, much better, and must not rest until we do.51. A. prejudice B. inferior C. poverty D. minority52. A. narrower B. wider C. severer D. closer53. A. conducted B. concluded C. excluded D. exposed54. A. distinct from B. feasible by C. superior to D. dependent on55. A. even though B. as though C. only if D. as if56. A. photograph B. picture C. atmosphere D. condition57. A. lack B. leak C. explosion D. extinction58. A. exhibit B. explore C. extend D. exploit59. A. contribution B. satisfaction C. achievement D. ambition60. A. at play B. under control C. in use D. on show61. A. devotion B,. familiarity C. application D. access62. A. imaginative B. alternative C. sensitive D. productive63. A. admitted B. permitted C. devoted D. limited64. A. abandoned B. adjusted C. altered D. applied65. A. memories B. glory C. reality D. idealsSection B （11分）Directions: Read the following four passage. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.( A )There are two factors which determine an individual’s intelligence. The first is the sort ofbrain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individual --- the sort of environment in which he is raised. If an individual is handicapped environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never get to the level of intelligence of which he is capable.The importance of environment in determining an individual’s intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes. Peter was brought up by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities. Mark was brought up in the home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Mark’s I.Q. was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level.66. This selection can best be titled_______.A. Measuring Your IntelligenceB. Intelligence and EnvironmentC. The Case of Peter and MarkD. How the brain Influences Intelligence67. The best statement of the main idea of this passage is that _______.A. human brains differ considerablyB. the brain a person is born with is important in determining his intelligenceC. environment is cru cial in determining a person’s intelligenceD. person having identical brains will have roughly the same intelligence68. The case history of the twins appears to support the conclusion that _______.A. individual with identical brains seldom test at same levelB. an individual’s intelligence is determined only by his environmentC. lack of opportunity blocks the growth of intelligenceD. changes of environment produce changes in the structure of the brain69. This passage suggests that an individual’s I.Q. _______.A. can be predicted at birthB. stays the same throughout his lifeC. can be increased by educationD. is determined by his childhood( B )If you’re looking for travel or holiday shop or online travel agent, look no further. 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Virgin Holidays is your best choice if you like winter sports.D. direct Holidays is your best choice if you are a tour operator.( C )Teachers are conditioned to tolerate a lot of bad treatment—it’s a professional suffering—but what teachers at Sir G.E. Cartier Elementary School in London went through last spring seems beyond the call of duty: a few of them agreed to be tied to a rail in the gym while students hit them in the face with cream pies. Why on earth would they do that? To raise $3,000 – enough cash for an interactive whiteboard, the most desirable piece of educational technology on the market right now. These Internet-age boards are essentially giant computer touchscreens, and they are all the fashion in schools. But with little room for them in school budgets, many educators are doing whatever it takes to raise the money themselves. “We are a desperate breed, aren’t we?” says Sharon Zinn, one of three teachers who volunteered for Cartier Elementary’s whipped- cream-flavored activity.At schools fortunate enough to have them, interactive-white boards are a blessing for educators struggling to attract a generation of students who got accustomed to using the Web from the early age. In the UK—where 70 percent of all primary and secondary classrooms haveinteractive whiteboards, compared with just 16 percent in the United States – students in those classrooms made the equivalent of five mouths’ additional progress in math. So far, the data on the efficacy （有效性）of touchscreens in US classrooms is inconclusive, but promising. Multiple recent studies suggest that the devices advance attendance rates and classroom participation. Ever since Dorchester School District 2 in Summerville installed 1,200 interactive boards in its classrooms, dis ciplinary incidents are cut down. “Students were bored” before the touchscreens arrived, says Superintendent Joe Pye.” Trips to the principal’s office are almost nonexistent now.”But for some teachers, learning to use the device is not easy, and a generation gap has opened with teachers who are still used to writing lesson plans with a pen and paper. Many older educators are terrified by the boards, says Peter Kornicker, a media specialist in Harlem, where despite a student poverty rate of 98 percent, all 35 classrooms are equipped with touchscreens. ”As always, it comes back to the ability of teachers to master this technology,” says Andy Rotherham of Education Sector in Washington, D.C. “We have to train them to use it. Otherwise, it’s just another underused, expensive thing.”73. How does the author view the deed of some teachers at Sir G.E. Cartier Elementary School?A. It is what most teachers are going through.B. It is something worth praise.C. It is too much for most teachers to tolerate.D. It is due to the conflict between teachers and students.74. Which of the following is true about the present generation of students?A. They are heavily influenced by the Web.B. They don’t respect teachers and observe disciplines.C. They are bored with the way teachers teach.D. They are only good at mathematics.75. What can we know about the situation in the US?A. A high percentage of schools are using touchscreens.B. The effectiveness of touchscreens has been proved.C. Touchscreens promote attendance and classroom participation.D. All teachers are receiving training to use touchscreens.76. What is the most important to make the touchscreens a success in classrooms?A. To get enough financial budget to equip classrooms with touchscreens.B. To give up the traditional way of writing lesson plans with a pan and paper.C. To familiarize more students with the use of interactive touchscreens.D. To train teachers to master and use the modern device.Section C （4 分）Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.Today, in most of the theatres in Britain, the stages are situated behind a sort of arch （拱门）, called the proscenium （幕布前的舞台部分）arch. The arch runs across the building with the stage on one side of it and the auditorium, housing the audience, on the other. The audience is kept to the area from which it can get a clear view of the stage. This type of theatre has been is use for three hundred years. ___77___ The actor can ignore them until the end, when they applaud the performance. If an actor wants to speak to the audience he tends to step out of the picture, as it were—down to the edge of the stage.___78____ Stage furniture or properties—“props”, as they are referred to in the business –are now as few as possible. Elaborate scenery is used only when it is going to last throughout the play, or when it is so constructed that it can be changed quickly. Modern theatres are built with the stage extending far in front of the proscenium arch, if indeed they have a proscenium arch at all. electricity, already long in use, has recently had a revolutionary effect. A change of lighting is as good as a change of scenery, and simpler and quicker; it can light one part of the stage in place ofanother. Footlights have been found unnecessary. Curtains also are hardly necessary, since the stage can be darkened to signify the end of a scene.The modern idea of having the stage in front of the proscenium arch is not really modern, of course. It makes our stages much like Shakespeare’s. ____79____ The famous speeches of Hamlet, for instance, can be delivered more quietly and naturally than they were in the las century. The actors no longer have to worry much about not being heard, or about turning their backs to the auditorium. They can get closer to the audience, while a larger audience can see them at work.Moreover, nowadays, people are finding that modern theatres are built to sit in comfortably for two or three hours at a stretch. ___80___ The result of these improvements is that, in spite of the high price of seats, perhaps more people than ever before are keen on theatre-going.Ⅳ. Translation. （共20分，第1、2句3分，第3句每句4分，第4、5句每句5分）1. 说到上海，人们总是认为它是有着西方文明的发达城市。